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That's hysterical! Small change of plan: I've put the biggest rooster with two of my hens and I'm going to be taking their eggs and incubating them since these storms are scary scary. I figure at worst I have some ugly mutts to dispatch later and at best if I end up completely cut off, I'm...

Two days in and they're ALREADY looking bigger/fatter. Poor skinny things.

Wow thank you for those photos that really helps! After seeing that I still, sadly, maintain they are underfed. Not only could we feel the keel bone, that was the only thing making the chest at all. We actually couldn't get *any* breastmeat off one. They were 12-20 weeks. Shame, but I can...

Quote: Awesome thanks! I was feeling really guilty like I was wasting them if I didn't let them grow out a bit more, but now I don't feel so bad! My husband is afraid to eat the silkies. Says they're dog food. I just cringe at all the wasted silkies his dog ate!!

Quote: Soup is not a bad idea... just seems a waste to need two birds for one pot!! The birds I have are definitely too skinny though. I'm talking 5 full grown roos with maybe a handful or two of breast meat.... so I'll be 'fattening' (without) fat these ones up a little if I can before it's...

Thank you! I'll do that as long as I can. I'm in suburbia so I can't extend time past the morning they decide to crow - so I hope they wait for me!

The lady who gave us our roosters yesterday gave us some really skinny ones. We think she had more roosters than she could afford to feed. Some of the ones that were big enough to kill weren't very meaty at all - while her spoiled silkies were fat little things. So now I have roosters...